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12/14/2012

December 14: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (Griffith Park's Travel Town turns 60 today, and we look back at the heroic efforts of local bus drivers rescuing Angelenos during the 1963 flood caused by the Baldwin Hills Reservoir Dam failure)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Google Maps for iOS 6...Finally ("But the map battles are not over. In 2004, Steve Coast founded Open Street Map -- an outfit that creates maps from information contributed by users and makes the results available for free.")
American Public Media Marketplace

Manhattan Beach: The City Built On San Dunes Celebrates Its Centennial ("To sell lots, the developers promoted Manhattan Beach to the rest of the region as a forward-thinking investment, organizing excursion trains on the Santa Fe Railroad for prospective buyers. Beginning in 1903, curious Southern Californians could also reach Manhattan Beach on the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad, an electric interurban line that ran hourly cars to Manhattan Beach. (It later became part of the Pacific Electric Railway.)")
LA as Subject via KCET

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The Transportation Headlines is a daily journal of transit, transportation, and urban planning information collected from local, regional, and national web sources, published by the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) or "Metro".

Blog entries represent the author's aggregation of web-based news and information for a particular day. This blog does not represent the official position or point of view of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, also known as Metro.